Dear Cindy. I know why Bush can't answer your question.

[Cleita]

You keep asking him, "What noble cause did my son die for"?

He can't answer with the truth because the truth is that we went into Iraq to keep Iraqi oil off the market. If Saddam's plan to go to Euros and flood the market with Iraqi oil had come to pass, we wouldn't be paying $3 to $4 a gallon for gas today.

It would have driven the price of oil way down. Their purpose was not to get their hands on Iraqi oil, but to keep Iraqi oil from being produced and flooding the market. While they were at it, they could steal all they wanted from the treasury, which they have done.

This is why he can't look you or any other mother who has lost her son in the eye and answer that question. He dragged this country into war for the worst of reasons and he can't admit it. A pox on him and his Saudi co-conspirators.

[bbinacan]

1. Removing tin foil hat

and going to bed. GO CANES!

[Cleita]

2. No tin foil hat needed. This was said on the radio last week

on Al Franken's show. Unfortunately, I don't remember his guest who said it, but the fellow is a well-established business journalist.

[bbinacan]

3. Al Franken's show?

As I said.

[Bluebear]

6. Do tell, is Franken's a tin foil hat show?

I've not heard the show, is it wacky?

[Cleita]

8. No it's not wacky except when Al's jokes deflate.

He's actually more moderate that most and he has some excellent and well qualified quests, among them Joe Conason, David Sirota and Tom (?) Oliphant, who bring their expertise to the show on a regular basis.

[bbinacan]

10. My mistake.

I thought Al said that, but it was a guest. Note to self, don't drink and comment at the same time.:beer:

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. I don't know, it seems to me that the oil prices are caused by

a combination of economic globalization and the incompetent screw up that the situation in Iraq has become. I would never give bush & co enough respect to credit them with actually having orchestrated this mess.

[Cleita]

5. It was Cheney and Condi along with their PNAC buddies

who did this. There were reports that Cheney was running around in circles about invading Iraq the day after 9-11. The plan was that they knew war would pretty much destroy any capacity to extract any meaningful amount of oil. They don't care about rebuilding Iraq. The chaos suits their M/O. Keeping the Iraqi oil off the markets enables them to keep the prices of oil high. More profit with less product and effort. You have to think like a criminal to get it. Then it all makes sense.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. You've got 'em coming and going. If things were like the PNAC

had promised, oil would be cheap & it could be said that they did it for the sake of the economy & 2006 elections.

[Cleita]

9. Having read many of the PNAC documents I haven't seen

any that promise cheap oil. What I got from their documents was that we should invade Syria, Iran and Iraq to bring a pax Americana to the Middle East to protect Israel and regulate the flow of oil from there.